Stephen Gudeman 
Economy’s Tension [EPUB ebook] 
The Dialectics of Community and Market

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Why are we obsessed with calculating our selections? The author argues that competitive trade nurtures calculative reason, which provides the ground for most discourses on economy. But market descriptions of economy are incomplete. Drawing on a range of materials from small ethnographic contexts to global financial markets, the author shows that economy is dialectically made up of two value realms, termed mutuality and impersonal trade. One or the other may be dominant; however, market reason usually cascades into and debases the mutuality on which it depends. Using this cross-cultural model, the author explores mystifications of economic life, and explains how capital and derivatives can control an economy. The book offers a different conception of economic welfare, development, and freedom; it presents an approach for dealing with environmental devastation, and explains the growing inequalities of wealth within and between nations.

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Models, Mutuality and Trade
Chapter 2. Exchange as Mutuality
Chapter 3. Trade’s Reason
Chapter 4. Property and Base
Chapter 5. Contingency or Necessity? The Dialectic of Practices
Chapter 6. Making Money
Chapter 7. Seeking a Balance

Tables

Table I: Dialectics in Economy
Table II: Economic Processes
Table III: Market Distribution

Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor


Stephen Gudeman received his Ph D in Anthropology from Cambridge University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota and has carried out fieldwork in Panama, Colombia, Guatemala and Cuba. He works at the intersection of anthropology and economics. His books include The Anthropology of Economy (Blackwell), Conversations in Colombia, with Alberto Rivera (Cambridge UP), Economics as Culture (Routledge), and The Demise of a Rural Economy (Routledge).

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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 196 ● ISBN 9780857451316 ● Dateigröße 0.4 MB ● Verlag Berghahn Books ● Ort NY ● Land US ● Erscheinungsjahr 2008 ● Ausgabe 1 ● herunterladbar 24 Monate ● Währung EUR ● ID 2856583 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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